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Roven earned his second nomination in the category, and Thomas and Nolan their third, but for each of them, it was the first time they took home the award as Oppenheimer finished the evening with 7 wins.
Nominated for direction for only the second time, Nolan won the award for his epic biographical feature Oppenheimer.
Nominated for the fourth time as an actor, Stone registered her second win for leading Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things, seven years after first having picked up the same award for her turn in La La Land (2016).
For his performance as the mercurial Father of the Atomic Bomb, Murphy scored his first Oscar nomination and win.
The sole award that could be foretold without a doubt, Randolph continued her march through the awards season to secure an Oscar for her work in The Holdovers.
After having been nominated twice since 1993, Downey finally scored his long-awaited Oscar for his turn as Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer.
Glazer received the International Feature award on behalf of the United Kingdom for his tour de force of a film The Zone of Interest, a haunting look into the machinations of those who carried out the Holocaust.
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